| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 233 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Linguistik aktuell,
0166-0829 ;
v. 29
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Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 29.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER 1 -- Introduction 1 -- An Overview of Light Verb Constructions 1. -- Japanese Suru and Verbal Nouns (VN's) 4 -- Light vs. Heavy Suru Hypotheses 10 -- Synopsis of This Study 17 -- CHAPTER 2 -- Types of Nominals 25 -- Nominal Types 25 -- Japanese Nominals 29 -- Two Test Constructions 33 -- Tests Based on the Constructions 38 -- Summary 50 -- CHAPTER 3 -- Mono- vs. Bi-Predicational VN-o Suru 53 -- Type A Telic Monopredicational VN-o Suru 54 -- Type B Atelic Monopredicational VN-o Suru 61 -- Type-shift 64 -- The Isolation of Bipredicational VN-o Suru 68 -- Type C Atelic Bipredicational VN-o Suru 76 -- Type D Telic Bipredicational VN-o Suru 85 -- Summary 90 -- CHAPTER 4 -- Control Structure 95 -- Control Hypotheses 95 -- Lexical Evidence 97 -- Morphosyntactic Evidence 104 -- Syntactico(semantic) Evidence 105 -- Summary 108 -- CHAPTER 5 -- A Conceptual Semantic Analysis 111 -- The Conceptual Structure of VN-o suru Constructions 113 -- Aspectual Accounts 124 -- Summary and Remarks 133 -- CHAPTER 6 -- A Syntactic Analysis 137 -- Three Types of Accusative Phrases 137 -- Things To Be Accounted For. 145 -- Syntactic Accounts of Monopredicational VN-o Suru 147 -- Syntactic Accounts of Bipredicational VN-o Suru 151 -- Derivations 160 -- Summ ary 167 -- CHAPTER 7 -- The Unaccusative Hypothesis 171 -- What is the Unaccusative Hypothesis? 172 -- Unaccusativity and VN-o suru 173 -- Search for Unaccusative Diagnostics 182 -- Accounts of Intransitive VN-o su r Forms 192 -- Summary 204 -- CHAPTER 8 -- Closing Remarks 209 -- References 213 -- Index 225. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Japanese language -- Verb.
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Japanese language -- Verb. |
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Japanese language -- Noun phrase.
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Japanese language -- Noun phrase. |
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Japanese language. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Miyamoto, Tadao. Light verb construction in Japanese. Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins Pub., 1999 (DLC) 99046742 |
| ISBN |
9789027294913 (electronic book) |
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9027294917 (electronic book) |
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9781556199134 (alkaline paper) |
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1556199139 (alkaline paper) |
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1556199139 (alkaline paper) |
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